All Service redesign articles – Page 193
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HSJ Knowledge
Encouraging exercise in people with diabetes
A pilot scheme developed by Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust and evaluated by London South Bank University could help patients lose weight and manage their condition better.
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Comment
Comment: Greater Manchester's health inequality woes resonate widely
'The Audit Commission report makes clear that reconfiguration 'is damaging the potential for more successful joint developments,' creating rifts and instability.'
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HSJ Knowledge
Cutting unplanned emergency admissions
To improve and provide personalised care for patients with long-term, complex conditions and to provide appropriate patient treatment pathways for them, Dudley Beacon and Castle primary care trust recruited three assertive case managers and one nurse consultant.
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on the 18-week target
'We will not achieve the 18-week target by carving out resources for specific clinical specialties, as we've done for cancer, because 18 weeks applies to all conditions. We need something radically different.'
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News
Decision to shut walk-in mental health crisis centre referred to Hewitt
A proposal to close a south London walk-in emergency clinic for people with mental health problems has been referred to the health secretary by local councils.
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Care heads for the high street as Blair courts retail kings
Tony Blair seems to have given his blessing to the expansion of companies like Boots into the healthcare market. As ideological rows about the involvement of the private sector hot up, Jennifer Trueland asks what the high street could offer the NHS.
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Sussex hospitals face loss of acute services
Up to five hospitals could be left without any acute surgery or medical facilities under proposals being considered by the NHS in West Sussex.
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HSJ Knowledge
A picture of progress: payment by results in mental health
Differences in diagnosis and treatment mean there are special challenges in developing payment by results in mental health. Now a group of trusts in the North are pioneering a 'whole life' approach which could hold the solution. Emma Dent reports
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Comment
Comment: Trusts feel squeeze from PCTs' tight grip
'Foundations should not be surprised if PCTs prove fierce negotiators this year. However, their complaint is about a lack of planning.'
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News
Trusts warned as 'choice of scan' takes shape
Trusts have been warned not to delay urgent diagnostic tests as part of efforts to reduce overall waiting times. The warning came in guidance on 'choice of scan': the policy to offer patients alternative providers of diagnostics in order to shorten waiting times.
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Comment: PCTs need certainty of consultations to innovate
'You cannot be certain of a consultation's outcome, however important to you, but that makes it all the more vital you are certain of the process.'
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Pioneer diagnostics and treatement centre to shut its doors
One of the first-wave diagnostic and treatment centres set up to cut orthopaedic waiting lists has closed due to a lack of patients.
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Exclusive: Monitor says spending cuts could slow 18-week progress
The independent foundation trust regulator has warned that progress towards the 18-week target could be slowed down by primary care trusts attempting to cut spending.
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Select committee to examine claims of £30m bailout using mental health cash
The Commons health select committee has promised to investigate claims that more than £30m has been plundered from mental health budgets to bail out deficits in other sectors.
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Comment: Responsibility and beliefs key to next stage of choice
'The government believes the 'where' of care resonates with the public at least as much as the 'how?'.'
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Comment: Anger as fitness for purpose programme fails on fairness
'Rather than PCTs being helped to consider and work on weaknesses in a supported way, they are in effect invited to merely record what they already know.'
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Waiting time figures for May and June
The Department of Health has published monthly waiting-time statistics covering May and June of this year for 15 procedures including MRI and CT scans, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, cardiology and audiology.
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Community foundation trusts - market forces or forced markets?
The government has backtracked from plans to force the commissioner/provider split, but for PCTs that do make the break, could community foundation trusts be the answer? Jennifer Trueland looks at the next stage of the foundation revolution.
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Walk-in centres have little effect on inequalities, says report
NHS walk-in centres are having little impact on unequal access to primary care services, with the majority of users being affluent, young and/or white, according to a survey of global evidence and research.
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Reid loses A&E row in Scotland
Former health secretary John Reid's local hospital is to lose its accident and emergency department under a £300m reorganisation of health services in Lanarkshire.